Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lancaster, Pa., he was offered the headmastership shortly after his 27th birthday. He moved to Mercersburg, Pa., found there a few acres of weeds and one old building, his "school." Today his personality and vision are reflected in a large (550 enrolment), firmly-founded institution with a reputation for vigor, discipline (stiff collars at classes), scholarship, a thoroughgoing democratic spirit...
...Smithmen yowled and redoubled their yowling as Franklin D. Roosevelt, from the wheel-chair in which he had been brought in, advanced to the Speaker's desk on crutches. His infirmity, which has troubled him for some three years, did not seem to have impaired his healthy vigor. Four years ago, when Mr. Roosevelt was a candidate for the Vice Presidency, Governor Smith had seconded his nomination. Mr. Roosevelt's speech nominating Governor Smith was a great contrast to ex-Senator Phelan's speech for McAdoo. It held the audience; it aroused incipient demonstrations in its course; it was extremely...
...last days : "The last memory I shall have of Frank Cobb was on the day following Harding's death. He was propped up on his bed, for he was in steady, enduring pain. For a lifetime he had surveyed the forces at play about him with a vigor almost unprecedented in journalism, a profession wherein only the vigorous survive. I had gone to his house that he might dictate to me a few notes to his colleagues on the succession of Mr. Coolidge to the Presidency. "Cobb of The World was dying, and he knew it. He sat there...
...greatly alter the busino-political spirit of the ticket. Dawes differs greatly from the Coolidge type: the Republican candidates may well be dubbed "Cautious Cal and Charging Charlie." Yet Mr. Dawes does not fly the flag of politics above the pennants of all other considerations. His very vigor is a challenge to the pure-political school of leaders...
...vigor with which these nouveau aristocrats are supporting their cause, however, makes up for any lack of ancient prestige: M. Leon Daudet called upon his twenty thousand associates to begin a royalist revolution "tonight, from this moment, from the gate of Paris." Possibly the Duc d'Orleans, nominal King of France, who is now residing in England is not aware of this enthusiasm, for he has not yet crossed the Channel to claim his throne...